USS Kidd (DDG-100)

9200 tons

156 meters

20 meters

9.5 meters

32 officers, 350 teams

Two propellers, each driven over 4 gas turbines; 100,000 shaft horsepower

31 knots

96 VLS cells, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 1 artillery 127 mm, 2 CIWS 20 mm anti-aircraft guns.

The USS Kidd (DDG- 100) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class. It is named after Admiral Isaac C. Kidd.

History

The Kidd was commissioned in 1998. In April 2004 the ship at Ingalls Shipbuilding was placed on Kiel and launched on January 22, 2005 from the stack. Godmothers of the destroyer Admiral Kidd were granddaughters Regina Kidd Wolbarsht and Mary Corrinne Kidd Plumer. This was followed by the final outfitting of the ship at the pier.

In August Hurricane Katrina swept across the Gulf Coast and also about the shipyard facilities of Ingalls. The Kidd was so badly damaged that the ship had to be towed back to dry dock. The following repairs delayed the commissioning considerably. It was only on June 9, 2007, the destroyer in the port of Galveston, Texas, are made solemnly in service after the official commissioning ceremony was held on 30 May 2007.

For the first time moved the Kidd 2009 with the USS John C. Stennis (CVN -74 ) in the West Pacific, from the end of 2011 then in the Indian Ocean and the beginning of 2012 in the Pacific.

In March 2014, it was involved in the search for the missing flight MH370.